Nick nolte

Born on February 8, 1941 in Omaha (Nebraska, USA), Nicholas King Nolte is the son of Frank Nolte, a commercial agent, and Helen King, dedicated to housework. He was always an athletic boy, very fond of sports, and he was especially good at football, for which he got a scholarship to study at the University of Arizona. However, he wasn’t that good a student, so he was eventually expelled because of his low grades.

The young Nolte tried his hand at various institutions, until he realized that he was particularly good at acting and enrolled at Pasadena City College in California to study drama. In addition, he had the prestigious Stella Adler as a teacher . “I have never been really comfortable with real life. I always felt strange with it and when I finally stepped on stage I knew what freedom is. I felt that it was a place where I could experience everything that life gives, and the discomfort was gone,” the actor said.

After earning a living as a model for a while, she began to make her way up the boards. He fell in love with another actress, Sheila Page, whom he married in 1966. He lavished himself with brief appearances in series and made his film debut as an extra in Shoot, Billy, Shoot , a middling western from 1972. Based on working As he worked hard, his acting skills honed, and he was finally given the lead role in Return to Macon County , which went unnoticed in theaters.

At that time Nolte did not have great aspirations, beyond being able to earn an honest living from paper to paper. Thus, one day he was offered a character in the adaptation of Irwin Shaw ‘s novel Rich Man, Poor Man , which was going to be made for television with a large budget. The problem was that he had to play Tom Jordache – the poor guy – at different ages. But Nolte takes it as a challenge and with the help of Sonny Shields, a famous boxing trainer, he loses several kilos thanks to exercise, to be able to play a teenager. Later, he gains weight again to embody the adult Tom in the last episodes of him.

The series became a worldwide phenomenon, and suddenly Nolte became a star. His character, the most vulnerable brother, who has to work hard to survive, is the one that attracts the most attention. Even the producers pressured him to play Tom Jordache’s son, which he refused. Unfortunately, he does not assimilate success well and falls into a cocaine addiction that would bring him many problems in the future.

“It’s a disease, a rather specific disease and one that I think I know a lot about because I’ve spent my whole life chasing scientists to explain how it works. My brain always wants more because it doesn’t know how to relax and that becomes a problem. That’s why I don’t like being arrested for driving under the influence of drugs, but sometimes these kinds of situations are necessary for me to realize my condition,” confessed the long-suffering actor.

He tried to monetize his television fame in the cinema, but Nolte is not very right when choosing roles. He turned down starring in Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Thing , and opted for titles like the thriller Abyss , the war drama Burning Snow , or the drama Lost Generation . He finally achieved mainstream favor on the big screen with Deadline: 48 Hours , an action thriller in which he co-starred with Eddie Murphy . He rocked the role of photographer in Nicaragua in Under Fire , and starred in A Crazy Man Loosed in Hollywood , Goodbye to the King , and the segment ofMartin Scorsese of New York Stories , where he was a painter.

Divorced from the aforementioned Sheila Page, Nick Nolte has subsequently been linked to Sharyn Haddad and Rebecca Linger, with whom he had a baby. Subsequently he has had another shoot with actress Clytie Lane. He also had an affair with Vicki Lewis , who was one of his co-stars in Learning to Live .

In the 90s, Nolte showed his good work in titles such as Cape Fear , again directed by Scorsese, the drama Afterglow , by Alan Rudolph , The Oil of Life , by George Miller , Jefferson in Paris , by James Ivory , Hotel Rwanda , by Terry George , and above all The Thin Red Line , the war film by Terrence Malick , where he overwhelmed the audience with his elaborate interpretation of the perfidious Colonel Tall.

The Oscar resists Nolte, who was nominated for The Prince of Tides , directed by and co-starring Barbra Streisand , although the award ultimately went to Anthony Hopkins , for The Silence of the Lambs . For another of his best works, a sheriff traumatized by his relationship with his father, in Affliction , again opted for the statuette, but that year it was Roberto Benigni ‘s , who took him away for Life is beautiful . He will try to beat the third after getting a new opportunity in the category of best secondary for his work in Warrior .